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He jumped a fallen branch. Seven. Six.
He could see the creek now, a dark roll of angry water, fed by the storm and his power. His enemy might be stronger here in the rain, but Chris knew instinctively, if he got in that water, he’d tip the scale of power in his favor.
Five. Four.
Three.
Screw it. Chris leapt into the air, arms outstretched. He could dive like an Olympic medalist. The water was there, below him, waiting.
Lightning cracked.
Chris felt his hands hit the water.
And then he didn’t feel anything at all.
CHAPTER 33
Becca ran for the front of the school, stumbling in her heels, sure she’d be the center of attention with her torn and soaked dress, Chris’s jacket hanging from her shoulders. But most of the kids from the dance were outside—and just as drenched as she was. Apparently, there’d been quite a show when Drew and his buddies showed up, demanding an ambulance.
No one gave her a second glance.
Becca shivered under the flagpole and used trembling fingers to search Chris’s contacts for Nick and Gabriel.
Only Gabriel answered.
We’ll take care of it.
“Becca!” Quinn appeared at her shoulder, her blond hair plastered to her chest. “Come on! We need to get out of the rain!”
Becca let Quinn drag her, but stopped when she realized she was being pushed into Rafe’s car. The lightning had stopped—that had to be a good thing, right? “Wait,” she cried. “I need—I can’t—”
“Don’t worry,” said Quinn. “I told him we’d get you home.”
Becca blinked at her. “Chris?”
Quinn frowned and shoved her the rest of the way into the car, sliding in behind her. The scent of sweat and summer rain was thick in the air. “No, Bex. Hunter. He was really upset,” she said. “He got a call or something and had to go home.”
That tore Becca’s attention off the cell phone clutched in her hand. “He just left?” It made her remember Chris’s comment. You started dating some stupid tool who couldn’t figure out letting you go with Drew was a bad idea.
“He was flipping out. Something with his mom, maybe?” Quinn grimaced. “I’m sorry, Bex, there was just a lot going on. I was trying to look for you, and then the ambulances showed up—”
That was the best part of this evening. Now people were suspecting Drew and his friends had taken a hit of something and had a bad reaction. First a ra**st, now a user.
She hoped they’d be expelled.
Becca flipped Chris’s phone open. No new messages.
What had happened? The Guide, for sure. But Chris and the twins had driven him away from the bridge. Would they be able to do it again?
Her own phone beeped. She almost jumped a mile, but got it together to dig it out of her purse.
Despite the fact that she was holding Chris’s phone in her lap, she had the uncanny hope that this would be a message from him.
No luck. But it was from Hunter.
Are you OK? So sorry to leave you.
She stroked her thumb over the display, deliberating how to respond. Then she tapped a quick reply.
